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Manufacturing processes, scientific experiments, research programs,
tax collection systems, are all endeavors once born as projects.
Project engineering is the application of science to the
development and analysis of project plans, and to the supervision
of their realization. This book is a unified treatise on the
technology of project planning and execution. It provides a
systematic understanding of the different methodological approaches
to the development and supervision of project plans. Readers are
given a technical introduction to the main methodologies, such as
graphs, activity networks, CPM, PERT, GERT, and Petri nets, and
given guidance as to when and why to apply one technique rather
than another. The book deliberately emphasizes those techniques
which are particularly suitable to exploiting the power of
computation, and therefore supplies a solid platform for applying
computer tools to the analysis and control of projects. The book
also introduces ODM, a methodology based on the theory of fuzzy
sets for supporting plan execution supervisors in making
operational choices. The book is self-contained. It is designed to
serve professionals and students in the fields of systems
engineering, computer aided planning, and decision support systems.
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Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing - IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Second IFIP TC 10 International Conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing, September 8-9, 2008, Milano, Italy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008)
Mike Hinchey, Anastasia Pagnoni, Franz J. Rammig, Hartmut Schmeck
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"Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better."
advised Albert Einstein. In recent years, the research communities
in Computer Science, Engineering, and other disciplines have taken
this message to heart, and a relatively new field of
"biologically-inspired computing" has been born. Inspiration is
being drawn from nature, from the behaviors of colonies of ants, of
swarms of bees and even the human body. This new paradigm in
computing takes many simple autonomous objects or agents and lets
them jointly perform a complex task, without having the need for
centralized control. In this paradigm, these simple objects
interact locally with their environment using simple rules.
Applications include optimization algorithms, communications
networks, scheduling and decision making, supply-chain management,
and robotics, to name just a few. There are many disciplines
involved in making such systems work: from artificial intelligence
to energy aware systems. Often these disciplines have their own
field of focus, have their own conferences, or only deal with
specialized s- problems (e.g. swarm intelligence, biologically
inspired computation, sensor networks). The Second IFIP Conference
on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing aims to bridge
this separation of the scientific community and bring together
researchers in the fields of Organic Computing, Autonomic
Computing, Self-Organizing Systems, Pervasive Computing and related
areas. We are very pleased to have two very important keynote
presentations: Swarm Robotics: The Coordination of Robots via Swarm
Intelligence Principles by Marco Dorigo (Universite Libre de
Bruxelles, Belgium), of which an abstract is included in this
volume."
This volume presents a selection of papers presented at the 3rd
European Workshop on Appl ications and Theory of Petri Nets that
took place in Villa Monastero, Varenna (Italy) in the period
September 27 - September 30, 1982. The I ist of topics included:
nets and related models, mathematical analysis of nets,
transformations and morphisms of nets, formal languages and nets,
parallel program verification and nets, the pro blem of time in
nets, programming languages based on nets, applications to
distributed systems, applications to realtime systems, software
~~gineering, hardware design and its implementation, recoverability
problems, nets and formal semantics; net tools. The diversity of
topics on this list witnesses the fact that the researchers from
very different areas presented their contributions and discussed
various research problems during the workshop. This interaction of
scientists looking at the area of Petri nets from very different
points of view makes this series of workshops interesting and
worthwi le. The volume documents the progress of the research
concerning Petri nets during a one year time from the 2nd European
Workshop held in Bad Honnef in 1981. We think that this was a
substantial progress indeed. This observation is even more pleasant
if one real izes that during the workshop in Varenna we have
celebrated 20 years of "existence" of Petri nets (the seminal work
by prof. C.A. Petri appeared precisely 20 years ago). We are very
proud to present an invited address by prof. C.A. Petri in this
volume.
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